// Alternatives
Alternatives to Applied Network Security Monitoring
Books in our catalog with overlapping topics and a similar reading level to Applied Network Security Monitoring. If Applied Network Security Monitoring is the wrong fit at intermediate level, start here.
01 · 2013
The Practice of Network Security Monitoring
Richard Bejtlich's NSM playbook: how to deploy collection sensors, validate that you actually see what you think you see, and build detection workflows around open-source tools.
Intermediate5/5Richard Bejtlich02 · 2017
Network Security Through Data Analysis
Michael Collins on building situational awareness from network telemetry: collection architecture, statistical baseline-setting, and the analytic patterns that turn raw flows into detection.
Intermediate4/5Michael Collins03 · 2017
Zero Trust Networks
Evan Gilman and Doug Barth's pre-marketing-bubble treatment of zero-trust architecture — what it is when you actually implement it (trust evaluation, device identity, dynamic policy) versus what the vendor pitch turned it into.
Intermediate4/5Evan Gilman, Doug Barth04 · 2007
Linux Firewalls
Michael Rash, author of psad and fwsnort, on building and operating Linux-native packet filtering and intrusion-response tooling. Pre-nftables in detail but conceptually durable.
Intermediate4/5Michael Rash05 · 2017
Practical Packet Analysis
Chris Sanders' working manual for Wireshark, geared at troubleshooting and incident response rather than abstract protocol theory. Updated for Wireshark 2.x.
Beginner4/5Chris Sanders06 · 2021
Designing Secure Software
Loren Kohnfelder, the original PKI author, on how to weave security thinking through requirements, design, implementation and operations rather than bolt it on at the end.
Intermediate5/5Loren Kohnfelder07 · 2014
Threat Modeling
Adam Shostack's practitioner-oriented introduction to threat modeling: STRIDE, attack trees, and how to fit the practice into a real software-development lifecycle.
Intermediate5/5Adam Shostack08 · 2012
Practical Malware Analysis
Still the gold standard textbook for static and dynamic malware analysis on Windows.
Intermediate5/5Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig09 · 2008
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
A from-first-principles tour of low-level exploitation that still teaches the mindset two decades later.
Intermediate5/5Jon Erickson10 · 2023
Intelligence-Driven Incident Response
A practitioner's guide to wiring threat intelligence into the incident response loop, built around the F3EAD cycle rather than tool-of-the-week tutorials.
Intermediate4/5Scott J. Roberts, Rebekah Brown